The North West Delegate of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, Mbowoh Elvis has revealed that over two hundred new voters have enrolled, two weeks after the electoral register opened.
In 2024, the region registered over 27,000 new voters and is targeting 45,000 new potential voters this 2025. From January 2 to August 31, 2025 as stipulated by the law governing elections in Cameroon, the staff of ELECAM in the region await a charged work season given the electoral calendar of the country. Electorates will vote their President and Regional Council representatives.
This year, Mbowoh Elvis is keen on giving every potential voter a chance to demonstrate their civic rights. Particular attention is paid to persons with disabilities and the elderly who visit ELECAM registration centres. “for physically challenged persons like the blind, election material have been prepared in brail to guide the blind in the voting process,” he assured.
The regional boss of ELECAM has however regretted that over 60,000 voters’ cards for voters who registered before 2021 have not been collected. This he blames on insecurity which has greatly slowed down political involvement in the region, while others have moved out of the region.
With the ELECAM machinery grinding steadily and vigorously, members of political parties are also mobilizing their militants and sympathizers to ensure their names are inscribed in the electoral registers for a comfortable political combat when elections will be announced.
The ruling CPDM party which holds over a 90% control of political power in the region is melting every midnight candle, and grabbing all opportunities through meetings, political rallies and conferences to lobby their militants and sympathizers to have themselves registered. Their strategies both invisible and visible extend to assisting potential voters to acquire identification papers needed in the registration process. It is without doubt that while the party enjoys an overwhelming majority, its leaders are not taking for granted any elections, as such multiplying strategies to continually enjoy the lion control.
Whilst security still poses a major challenge to electoral process in the region, there is a steady improvement in the security atmosphere, paving the way for more and more Cameroonians in the region to embrace their political aspirations.
Jennyhans Nde
